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Writers Corner author Cheryl Reed, Newhouse faculty<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Dominic Fiacco, pianist\/organist, Rising Star from Poland.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Music and Art, Poetry and Dance, Opera, Light Show and Storytelling: Time for Caz Counterpoint<\/strong><\/p>\n

The invitational art exhibit of regional artists is up ready for viewing throughout Cazenovia, as well as four large sculptures by Arlene Abend at Stone Quarry Hill Art Park. DeWitt resident Abend, is a featured artist this year, with \u201cStretching Boundaries,\u201d a video about her life and work. That video will be shown during the 5-7 reception\u00a0July 7\u00a0at SQHAP, along with \u201cArt on the Hill,\u201d a video featuring SQHAP founder Dorothy Riester. Those videos were produced by Syracuse videographers Courtney Rile\/Mike Barletta and Susie Cody.<\/p>\n

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FY resident Drayton Jones’\u00a0Boats & Docks\u00a0watercolor – part of the Art Exhibit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Emmanuel Sikora, composer\/ pianist\/organist from Cortland, MM from U. at Binghamton & organist\/choir master at St. Mary of the Assumption in Binghamton.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Rising Stars\u00a0kicks off the musical segment of the festival\u00a0July 11\u00a0with violinist Charlie Loh (Manlius), soprano Adina Martin (Marcellus) and pianist Dominic Fiacco (Poland \u2013 outside Utica). They will premiere new works written for them by Mario Pietra (Fayetteville), Alexandria Kemp (Ithaca), and Emmanuel Sikora (Cortland), alongside the classics.<\/p>\n

Their counterparts on\u00a0July 18\u00a0are pianist Bradley Zell (Westhill), violist\/composer Sachin Shukla (Manlius) and organist Dominic Fiacco (Poland), premiering works by Gregg Welcher (Baldwinsville), Shukla and Emmanuel Sikora (Cortland).<\/p>\n

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Choreographer\/dancer Lynea D’Aprix – Chittenango native now with Syr. Ballet – part of\u00a0July 13\u00a0“Creation: A Celebration”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

ESP jazz quartet, winner of no fewer than three SAMMYs, entertains at Lakeland Park Thursday July 12 from 6:30-8:30 p.m.. Watch the sun set over the lake as you listen to this high-energy modern jazz group that features original music with blends of bebop, groove and world music.<\/p>\n

\u201cCreation! A Celebration\u201d\u00a0is a unique program designed for Friday the 13th\u00a0— a mix of poetry, music, dance, video, and light show. That\u00a07:30 p.m.\u00a0show is at 1st\u00a0Methodist on Lincklaen St, across from the Post Office. The poetry and concept are David Hitchcock\u2019s (Fayetteville), while the videos are by Sam Pellman (Clinton), and David Harper (Pompey) and Lorne Covington (Skaneateles). Covington\u2019s recent interactive light installation in D.C. won a rave review in the New York Times in June.<\/p>\n

July 14\u00a0is packed with events, starting at\u00a010:30 a.m. with\u00a0Storytelling\u00a0at Caz Library, mixed with chalk art and music. Renowned storyteller Francis Parks will enthrall with her stories old and new, while composer\/ performer Paul Leary will demonstrate his musical bicycle wheels installation. All invited to play with the bicycle and make their very own music, while others create chalk art on the sidewalk in front of the library.<\/p>\n

Also at\u00a010:30\u00a0July 14, artists are invited to Gypsy Bay Park (end of Caz Lake across from Lorenzo) to sketch during the Driving Competition. This is to honor the 225 years since John Lincklaen arrived in Cazenovia. Caz artist Toloa Perry will be there to lead this\u00a0\u201cPlein Air\u201d event. By way of expanding the audience for art and all things Cazenovia, completed sketches will be uploaded to the Caz Chamber of Commerce website, with the artists\u2019 permission, as well as to the Society for New Music website.<\/p>\n

Concluding the\u00a0July 14\u00a0events are a 3 p.m. Syracuse University Veteran\u2019s Writers Group reading at St. Peter\u2019s Episcopal Hall. That Writers Corner spills over into the\u00a0Art Exhibit Reception\u00a0from\u00a04-6 p.m., an opportunity to meet the authors and artists and walk the village to view the art \u2013 from Common Ground and Caz Artisans to Cazenovia Library and points in between. The food and drink will be at St. Peter\u2019s, along with walls lined with art.<\/p>\n

4 p.m.\u00a0Sunday July 15\u00a0has 1st\u00a0Presbyterian opening its doors for a Ben Lake Memorial concert of\u00a0\u201cChorales: A Premiere Event\u201d\u00a0featuring the\u00a0world premiere\u00a0of \u201cChorales\u201d by Cornell composer Kevin Ernste, alongside \u201cChorale Preludes\u201d by the late Howard Boatwright, celebrating the centennial of his birth. Also on that program are works by Guggenheim winner Tonia Ko, a Cornell PhD, as well as recently appointed Chicago Symphony composer in residence Missy Mazzoli. The Society All-Stars bring this music to life, joined by guest organist Oliver Brett, winner of the 2017 Canadian Organ Prize.<\/p>\n

Week 2 begins with the\u00a0Young Composers Corner\u00a0June 16 \u2013 20, morning sessions from 9:30-1 and afternoon sessions from\u00a01:30\u00a0\u2013 5. Syracuse native Nikolas Allen Jeleniauskas is the mentor for this special program for middle and high school students interested in trying their hand at creating music (composition). It\u2019s free.<\/p>\n

Writers Corner\u00a0continues\u00a07:30 p.m.\u00a0Tues. July 17\u00a0with Antoinette Brim at St. Peter\u2019s Episcopal hall. A Cave Canem Foundation fellow, her acclaimed \u201cThese Women You Gave Me,\u201d 2017, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.<\/p>\n

On July 20th\u00a0audience members are invited to savor some of the suffragettes\u2019 favorite foods at a\u00a0prix fixe\u00a0dinner at the Lincklaen ($30 all inclusive), then head next door to Cazenovia Theater for\u00a0\u201cPushed Aside: Reclaiming Gage\u201d. This\u00a0opera\u00a0tells the story of Fayetteville\u2019s Matilda Joslyn Gage, one of the founding triumvirate of the women\u2019s suffrage movement, along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony, who was pushed aside and right out of the history books after 40 years of tireless work for the movement. Why? Because she thought it was a mistake to join forces with the Temperance movement just to increase the numbers, and history proved her right. The opera brings to life the relationships between these brave women, along with Frederick Douglass, Native American doctors, L. Frank Baum, Maud Gage, and chorus. The cast is drawn from Central New York\u2019s finest singers.<\/p>\n

(The opera will be repeated the next evening,\u00a0July 21 at 7:30 p.m.\u00a0in Seneca Falls during their Celebratory Conference weekend.)<\/p>\n

Family Arts Day\u00a0is like a festival in itself, with a Poetry Round-Robin at\u00a01 p.m., Writers Corner at\u00a02 p.m., performance of works completed during the Young Composers Corner at\u00a03 p.m., and \u201cSound Wandering III\u201d at\u00a04 p.m.\u00a0with music at 4 sculptural sites at the world famous Art Park with a view. The featured writers are Newhouse faculty Cheryl Reed (\u201cPoison Girls,\u201d soon to be made into a movie), and Stephanie Storey, whose 2016 \u201cOil & Marble\u201d(about Leonardo & Michelangelo) became a Los Angeles Times bestseller. Family Arts Day ends on the Hilltop with ice cream and lemonade at 5:30 p.m.<\/p>\n

For tickets for\u00a0July 13\u00a0or 20 (prix fixe dinner &\/or opera), or more information, call 315-251-1151, or purchase tickets via PayPal,\u00a0www.societyfornewmusic.org<\/a>. All other events are free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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